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Here's a rundown of the SOAS Co-Creator Internship and Summer Placement opportunities on offer, what students have achieved and where these opportunities can take you.

Yan-Han Wang is a PhD Student in the Department of Politics and International Studies. Her research focuses on the resurgence of sex workers' rights movements in Taiwan, and the dialectic between the sex workers' rights activism and anti-pornography feminism in global human rights advocacy, with wider interests spanning gender and politics, law and society, and Taiwan Studies.

Clara is a PhD researcher at SOAS who studies the spatial and legal dimensions of city-led protection for forced migrants. Challenging state-centric accounts in legal studies and International Relations that portray subnational actors as peripheral or symbolic in lawmaking, the study analyses how São Paulo influenced the reformation of Brazil’s 2017 national Migration Law from the bottom up. Drawing on several years of humanitarian fieldwork in the areas of shelter and urban displacement, her research covers migration governance and municipal strategies for overcoming national political gridlocks.

Talha Ahsan is a historian and podcaster on the lives of the Caliphs. He is currently a PhD researcher on Ḥanbalism at the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics supervised by Prof. Hugh Kennedy.

Financialisation, Household Finance, Pension Systems, Mortgage, Insurance, Inequality, Class Consciousness, Class Reproduction.

Mini is a PhD student at the department of Law at SOAS.

The Bollywood industry is commercially driven, so how has it been influenced by Hindu nationalist politics? For his MA dissertation at SOAS, Kaashif Hajee conducted fieldwork and interviewed prominent Bollywood figures to find out.

International foundation, pre-masters and academic English programmes at SOAS University of London

Dr Williams explored archives relating to music history in Rajasthan.